Spectrum Shorts

Personal search for deeper meaning in the course of a day. An exciting merge of animation and fictional elements, with a great sense of cinematic rhythm.

Comets have augured catastrophe, upheaval and the end of days. A film about these meteoric ice-cored fireballs and their historic ties to divination.

From Europe to the USA, people express their views and build a colourful mosaic of Iran and its inhabitants. Politics is of course included. Screened together with Grandma, a Thousand Times.

The earth turns beneath the camera. People and their relationships undergo change. History passes. Ie. History passes. Time appears as a fleeting reflection.

An unashamedly gothic version of Alice. For a start, the lead is played by a man. The viewer can determine whether it is kitsch, camp or cult.

An immense salt lake on Cyprus bears witness to the meeting of two individuals: a lonely person and a solitary animal.

Chloë Sevigny stars in a fantastical world where a Dutch TV signal possesses young viewers, making them believe they can transform into other people or monsters.

The filmmaker collects memories of his youth. His brother often told him about being stung by a poisonous jellyfish. Here he retells the story.

Beautiful, hand-developed 16mm film. A story of desire and intimacy that takes us beyond what we are accustomed to.

Marianne sits by the phone at night. If worry is keeping you awake, she provides help or understanding. But who is going to help her?

Colourful, associative Basque animation reveals exotic India through musings and memories. Screened before Zephyr.

After the credit crunch: an intense meeting between a talk show host and a banker. Individual freedom proves to be a terribly slippery concept.

Successful young man allows himself to get dragged into bad things by his addict ex-girlfriend. Great acting in this convincing Swiss graduation film.

A train is heading to the vanishing skyline; in perpetual colour metamorphosis, the landscape never ceases to stay still.

‘No one fully understands the effect lightning has on its victims. But strange things seem to happen.’ Man or Astro-man?

Artist Tommy Hartung uses Darwin's theory of evolution as a framework for a stimulating, non-linear, stop-motion animation.

The compelling story of the widows of Banares. World premiere and captivating cinéma vérité by one of India’s leading documentary authors.

A poetic existentialist journey though the human body and soul. Jean-Julien Pous won the New Arrivals Award in 2009 with Seeking You.

A boy, a girl, a major city. In this super-aesthetic fairytale, fast-paced Shanghai appears to be a fickle goddess of fortune.

Funny, touching and ambitious in scope and dealing with addiction, spirituality, identity, relationship dynamics and the ongoing quest for joy.

A playful animation depicting how chickens in a battery cage interact in defined ways and form complicated social structures.

A colourful video set within a lush viewing environment populated by costumed taxidermic animals. Part apologia, part call to arms.

‘The audience is invited to take part. A man dances in front of public toilets whose symmetrical architecture suits the film's format.’ (MF)

Beijing Double Happiness allows us to experience an audio-visual travel dialogue. A double-faced Janus, filmed in Super-8 and digital video.

Episodic video about doing drugs, being young and feeling inadequate. Despite this youthful nihilism, it's engaging, humble and ultimately optimistic.

Music and light, change and motion all become one, as Victorian engravers' ghosts are re-animated to the music of Albinoni.

Sweet ode to the imagination; birds help a boy in a dreamworld with a beautiful woman. Convincing student film with atmospheric soundtrack. Screened before TwinBrothers, 53 Scenes from a Childhood.

A film that strives to turn ethnicities, politics, races and nations into non-existent objects like ovals, boxes, blobs and wardrobes!

How to become an ideal woman? At a cadet school in Moscow, girls are trained to be ideal citizens of the homeland. A research on patriotism.

A metaphorical journey through the streets of Amsterdam in search of a lost paradise and the hope for freedom.

Heavy metal witnessed its heyday in the 1980s as a controversial and loud music genre, with a dedicated fan base. Metal knows many subgenres…

Forceful cuts underline the stunts of the Chinese circus performers and their effect on the audience. Theatre becomes film in this homage to Bruce Conner.

Greece after the crash. Casus belli elevates the art of queuing to a newly defiant level: ‘If one man falls, we all fall down.’ (YZ) Screened before Attenberg.

Canadian First Nations tale that combines authentic traditions of oral storytelling but takes on fictional dimensions.

A cinematic concert by two free spirits: avant-garde filmmaker Pip Chodorov and minimal composer Charlemagne Palestine, both New Yorkers in the diaspora.

A matter of casting. A diva-like soap actress is given the role of a female builder, opening her eyes to the lives of others. Very witty.

Leaving his First Nations reserve, Jimmy encounters the lost souls of the city. No matter how far you travel, you can't escape who you are.

The temporary and the eternal are unified in this epic five-part film by one of the world’s hippest artists. A culture in decline.

This animation shows how a city grows organically from a small dot to a complicated system of lines and forms in which our desire for utopia is embedded.

A Super-8 replicant race against time!

Coming Attractions humorously excavates the rhizomes of a mutual genealogy in the trinity of early cinema, avant-garde film and advertising.

Effective fiction about two people, one of whom works during the day, the other at night. They are happiest when they meet.

A provocative jewel of radical thought from Professor David Harvey, playfully and astutely animated via the supercharged visual synthesis of Andrew Park.

This super fast animation takes viewers on an overwhelming visual journey through an urban landscape. Screened before Neverquiet (Film of Wonders).

Melancholy L.A. How a landscape is coloured by intense desire. You want to hang onto it for as long as possible, but it slips away.

A meta-ficticious-docu-exploitation movie featuring Joep van Lieshout, a singing moustache and a cast of innocents getting their hands dirty. Primal filmmaking.

Second part of a diptych by Erwin Olaf which consists of Dusk (2009) and Dawn (2010). The latter is almost literally a negative pendant to the former.

The police interrogation of a deaf mute boy, next door to the boarding school he attends in Kiev, turns into a shocking experience in real time.

Moving portrait of a grandson remembering his grandmother. Fabulous camerawork is used to depict the end of a generation.

Drama of the absurd in the room of a terminally ill patient. His doctor and nurse play a game of seduction while he is in the grasp of claustrophobia.

Puppets use their powers to rid the world of the last remaining dictators. A LOUD statement.

A visual gem without any dialogue, dealing with a boxer's fear of defeat. Struggling with life’s challenges, he withdraws into himself.

Artist duo L.A. Raeven look for each other. A sister appears, one disappears; the tragic search on a stairwell catches itself out.

Guilty landscape. A carefully observed decrepit swimming pool, silently relates a myth from Africa's traumatic history. Screened before Imagine, the Sky.

A poetical film from southern Kyrgyzstan where two mothers let their son and daughter meet for the first time, with thoughts of marriage. Screened before The Day I Disappeared.

Engrossing mix of Turkish soaps and poetry, with no beginning or end, in which themes such as family, loneliness, departures and love are magnified.

A girl waits for the pick-up truck that will transport her to the city. Once there, somber walls absorb her steps and silence her voice. Screened before Marimbas from Hell.

Let's refer to NASA images as found footage. Director Johann Lurf stimulates multiple senses. A great trip.

Cannes Competition 2010. Delicate, short fiction on desire and loneliness. A young girl wants to be an actress but lives at the bus station. Screened before Three Weeks Later.

Searching for what we bring with us and what we leave behind, The Foreigner is a personal and melancholic story of detection set in Macau.

Where are you from? I am nobody and everyone, I belong to nowhere and everywhere is home.

Beautiful black-and-white portrait concerning the life of a top level female bodybuilder who has little to do other than train. Screened before Chassis.

With a reinterpretation of a pop song released in 2004 by Britney Spears, this video demonstrates how reality and (mass) media today are strongly intertwined.

'How do you cope with loss?', the filmmaker wonders, whilst studying its meaning to others.

Wicked! A young boy learns to play the piano in a universe of absurdity. David OReilly’s latest animation is not to be missed.

A cinematically strong reverie with elements of poetry and dance reflecting the roar of a Pakistani artist who seeks liberation from all inhibitions.

You don't need much for an entertaining film other than a sense of humour. And the ability to lie straight-faced. That too.

Unusual road movie. A girl has to go on a sudden car trip to her mother's place of birth.

A short meditation on film, and what cinema stands for. Uses a series of two second clips, comprising quotes and terms derived from movie soundtracks.

Captured and simultaneously accelerated, the fleeing moment of the first winter snowfall on a residential street in Moscow.

Flashings in the Mirror is a video composed of shared flashing-in-the-mirror photos, found via Google Images.

An exceptionally ingenious Chinese clay animation, in which a mighty symbol is hollowed out.

Inspired by the eponymous O. Henry short story, about restless searching and the continuous, never-ending passage of time.

Gliding along the slender arches of a modernist highlight, we hear the users reminisce about the heyday of a political ideology.

A rewardably complex, part documentary, part fiction film which takes B.S. Johnson's unorthodox novel House Mother Normal as its formal departure point.

Patterns of grasses, trees and flowers meld, accompanied by the rousing music of Japanese experimental jazz band the Samurai Jazz Quintet.

A multi-awarded student film, surreal and intriguing. A boy collects discarded black-and-white passport photos and tries to recollect a previously existing life.

A miniature city symphony exposes Los Angeles’ gentrification and neglect. A cheeky montage of static images is set against the region’s musical history.

Inspired by the city symphony genre and the Soviet montage movement, this short connects the ancient Greek story of Icarus with a trip through a modern urban landscape.

Report on how a boy's disease progresses: the suffering, the will to survive and the intimate thoughts that betray this.

The past is given volume and presence. A meticulous observation of a work of art on the ruins of Gibellina, which was destroyed by an earthquake.

Good acting and camerawork in this detailed portrait of daily life in a rural area of former East Germany.

A poetic documentary from Beirut about the memories of the filmmaker's grandmother and her husbandry. A portrait of a fascinating woman, but also of Lebanon itself. Screened together with 1001 Irans.

The maker studies his unpredictable surroundings. A short, but sharp stop-motion animation with all sorts of plants.

A man goes for a 'quick' gamble. His wife and child wait for him. But the soundtrack tells a different story. Image and sound interlock ingeniously.

Probing and expanding the field of vision, a busy airport terminal reveals its exponential experimental potential.

A dystopian cut-and-splice of deep forest survival and 2D breakdown from one of animation’s rising stars.

Luna Bar, Hotel Kyjev, Bratislava. An atmospheric ode to what was once a luxury club.

Film student Komljen won a prize for exceptional talent at Cinefondation in Cannes for this idiosyncratic work on a seemingly rudderless generation.

An experimental essay on filmmaking and celluloid, in the vein of Indian independent cinema. Delightfully shot.

Science non-fiction fairy tale made as an experimental correspondence between two lyrical 16mm filmmakers: Robert Todd and Lori Felker.

Steyerl tells the story of the current global economic crisis by means of an aeroplane junkyard in the Californian desert and all sorts of crashes.

A peaceful landscape, with a perfectly laid table covered in delicious food and drink. The ideal occasion for a fabulous meal...

Eclectic hotpot shot in an overheated Brazil. People are oppressed, baby turtles swim out to sea and our culture decays.

A struggle between true memory and cinematic memory in Castro Marim, a place where Portugal transformed sin to salt.

You're never alone with a camera. Insideout is a poetic mash-up of existential confessions from the depths of the YouTube jungle.

Makino Takashi's condensing films work like escapist drugs. Inter View is relatively minimal and marks the start of his blue period.

Film performance about/with/for The Shining and all the delights it contains - a collection of corpses - the gold rush - Timberline Lodge Hotel...

A filmmaker who shoots three to four feature films per year before leaving school probably does not need to make a short. He sees that entirely differently.

Utilising a patchwork of images, the maker studies the personal consequences of a disaster for the inhabitants of post-colonial metropolis Mumbai.

A selection of excerpts from Asher's Japan Tapes - a poetic diary that chronicles his encounters with modern Japanese life.

Poetic 16mm precision. Footage of nature and sunlight intermingled by repeatedly running the film through the camera.

In her unique, associative manner, Nina Yuen juxtaposes a number of stories about death and its rituals, with growth, flowering and decay.

A game of paintball in the South American jungle becomes a cycle of violence, highlighting the short distance between the absurd, the banal and the tragic.

Experimental, political puppet animation is a remarkable exception in African cinema. Made with patience and barely contained rage.

Semi-surround landscape projected on 16 screens, showing rhythmically-edited moving images of the passing landscape framed though a train window.

Duke & Battersby propose existence is abject, farcical, and messy. An experimental narrative about a primatologist who falls in love with a bonobo.

Live performance by filmmaker Joost Rekveld with composer/musician Yannis Kyriakides and experimental musician/guitarist of The Ex Andy Moor.

Innovative use of existing archive images from Willy Mullens’ silent film Haarlem (1922). By Karel Doing, with sound design by Michal Osowski.

In this quietly poetic film, Maria do Céu returns beyond the Tagus to fertile, polyphonic Alentejo and a village she left forty-five years ago for Lisbon.

From festival regular Gregg Smith: Tango as a means to rekindle the lost passion in a marriage.v

Video poem by eddie d in which pompous rituals around ‘Prinsjesdag’ are exposed and reduced to their very essence by means of canny editing.

Heart-wrenching, well-acted fiction about a Moldavian teenager and her baby. Her mother makes her give the child up. Cuts to the bone.

British video artist Phil Collins' new film visits teachers who gave classes on Marxism-Leninism in the German Democratic Republic (GDR).

Beautiful interpretation of the Disney classic. Broersen & Lukács guide you through Bambi's moods, but without the narrative or the characters.

Maxime doesn't come home after school. Against the odds, his father Bruno, who is a teacher, tries to understand his son and his friends.

Every man needs a hobby: a dog and its owner prepare for a dog fight. Beautifully shot, simultaneously tender and gruesome. Screened before The Lord's Ride.

Animals become excited when spring is in the air. Sweet, seemingly simple Japanese animation that puts a smile on your face.

It took the filmmaker ten years, but resulted in a beautiful, hand-drawn film. With a dark note and for an adult audience.

A writer/filmmaker decides to stalk the thief of his laptop. Is it a true story? Undoubtedly funny.

Life on the steppes of Kazakhstan is closely tied to the old gods of heaven and earth. The tent is round, the tables are round and so is the world.

In the linen cupboard, at the market, on a bench - where can Mina leave her grief for lost love? Bittersweet and yet hopeful. Screened before In the Future.

A boy comes home with an owl and is immediately locked up by his father. Authentic drama, recorded in Morocco, about the role of myths and legends.

Improbable heroes overcome problems in Cairo in this new, fresh variation on Egyptian oral and musical culture.

Bizarre relationship drama featuring mice in a purpose-built apartment with edible furnishings. From the Living Space series by Hund and Horn. Screened before Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then.

Fischinger’s three-and-a-half-week long trip on foot from Munich to Berlin captured on a 35mm camera in 1927.

We watched the confrontation between those in power and the people in Bangkok on television. But who were the demonstrators? We follow one back to his village.

Intriguing documentary about Romanian mayoral elections shows how voters in a young democracy are given a helping hand.

Plotless, wordless ode to the imagination. Children playing in the wilderness around their school. What boredom can lead to.

Indonesia and Malaysia are sometimes at odds with one another. There are even people gunning for war. Humour solves this type of idiocy and led the filmmaker to make a political satire. Cinema Reloaded project. Will be screened before Tiger Eyes on Thurs 3rd Feb.

An elderly man tells us about his life with a very odd disease, nulepsy. What is that naked man doing on that skateboard?

In the eyes of a boy on a trip, Berlin's metro is a spirit world ruled by the gods Hypnos (sleep) and Nemesis (revenge).

A mother and daughter wrestle on a beach - an analogy for their real life conflicts and a manifestation of a perpetual generational gap.

Enquiry into the allegorical tension between inside and outside, real and imaginary, two- and three-dimensional, analogue and digital, immensity and intimacy.

Strange things happen to Thomas, a white foreigner in the Netherlands, during his first night shift at a petrol station. Acutely observed and absurdist. Screened before Curling.

Astoundingly beautiful, poignant portrait of a fragile humanity surrounded by an omnipotent nature.

Children use their hands to make a telescope, so why can't a filmmaker use his hands to make a lens? It works! Even looks like a classic.

Beautifully shot, penetrating biopic of an idealistic African-American soldier who stayed behind in France after World War II.

Suddenly a humble citrus fruit is granted absolute power over the universe. From a story by Benjamin Rosenbaum.

Self-reflective road movie diary, blending social commentary and pop music. Intersects cinema, travelling, politics and 'the origins of marketing'.

Futuristic vision of a world after a catastrophic disaster. Dark parable in which miscommunication makes it hard for the mutated limbs to cooperate.

Charming documentary about Our Newspaper and journalism in a forgotten region, against the imposing backdrop of contemporary Russia.

Intriguing and funny documentary on a thriving film industry in beautiful Ladakh. Buddhist monks, taxi drivers and shopkeepers make their own masala blockbusters.

Camera improvisation in Cinemascope transforms the meagre light in an old Normandy shed into an abstract kinetic light show.

Winner of the student competition in Cannes is a delicate family drama about an exceptional friendship in icy Finland.

Beautifully shot love story about a simpleton who is to be married off, but has his eye on someone else. Screened before Lucia.

The band Coolhaven likes to envelop the audience in alienating, brutal and odd sound sculptures, songs, lingering ambience, electronics and performance.

Paris and Lea Seydoux are amazing in this playful, infectious homage to the Nouvelle Vague, concerning a tailor with doubts.

An inspiring story that documents the life and dreams, hardships and perseverance of the 15-year-old aspiring pro skateboarder Nassim.Also screened at XL location 32: Theater Zuidplein.

A young filmmaker satirises the movies he loves, making a mockery of sex and violence. But things stay fun and pleasant. An ingenious film.

The process from tree to match proves to be the perfect metaphor for the route from state to individual capitalist. Recorded on beautiful 16mm.

A frightening sequence of events that can only lead to disaster.

Sequence with a passing train, passengers in motion and a woman standing still on the platform becomes a study of illusionary movements.

An alarming message. Existentialist problems have entered Second Life and waste disposal has to be tackled too.

A teenager helps an old man across a snowy street. He is asked to come in so he can warm up, but there is also another reason.

Online, the audience has selected the Public Winner 2010/2011 from some 236 New Arrivals. This will be screened alongside the monthly winners.

The maker of Glue and Unmade Beds delves yet deeper into youth culture. Lulu and Rocky, from different corners of the world, meet in the virtual one. Prelude to Tiger Eyes on Tue 1st Feb.

How pure light can break through black-and-white emulsion and reach the retina. 'Light rayns-rains-reigns across a dream of tranquility.'

Film based on a press photograph showing the British musician Damon Albarn performing at a pop concert in Kinshasa. The photo itself, however, is not visible in the film.

Microscopically direct, straight to the heart of filmmaking where dust and death wrestle with life.

Brief, associative animation conjures up a colourful world of reality and fiction, recognisability and abstraction.

Intimate, poetic film diary in Rose Lowder's signature style. She ran the film through the camera multiple times whilst recording a mountain village.

An elderly lady tries to make contact outside the confines of her flat. Intimate portrait of a spinster overflowing with affection. Screened before Hoy como ayer.

An appealing diploma film about a mentally challenged woman who roams the streets of Kolkata. One day she meets a sympathetic man.

He's not a rough boy really, as long as he takes his medicine and can sit peacefully in the garden. A seemingly quiet day in Uganda. Screened before Speak.

Surreal and satirical yet poetic, Route 666 is part of George Kuchar’s series Weather Diary.

Maybe Royaume du O is the story of an escaping bird, the ultimate representative of nature and science. Then a hunter who wakes up.

Two couples travel from Vienna to the North Cape and back. On 29th June, passing the polar circle, they stop in front of a sign saying 'Arctic Circle'.

The beauty of simplicity. A look inside a hair salon in Maputo, Mozambique. Beautifully observed with delicate colour and light. That's it. Well cut.

A day in the life of two lazy Muscovites. Their city is by the sea, the sun is shining and wine is home-made.

An ultra-short self-help video that rests somewhere between the realms of code-hacking, archaic design and spiritual awakening.

Four people in a car - cigarettes, polaroids, shopping centre claustrophobia and self-imposed solitary confinement.

What is the destiny of a person in exile? This visually exciting film addresses the nightmares and realities of displaced people. Premiered at Cannes.

Double bill with Tokyo - Ebisu is an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots showing station exits along Tokyo’s busiest metro line.

The high points from the Spectrum Shorts programme from the last 10 days brought together one more time in a 14-hour film marathon in two parts. Non-stop.

Highlights from the Spectrum Shorts programme of the last ten days, brought together one last time in a two-part, fourteen hour film marathon.

Mathematical concept by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by filmmaker Gatten into a beautiful conceptual film consisting of 300 shots, 29 frames long.

Shutter tracks the rising sun, the lengthening shadows and the darkening day of a total solar eclipse.

Exploration of the tormented relationship between love and friendship, passion and jealousy, set in the turbulent landscape of the English coast.

Animation about film as the seventh art, and the ultimate synthesis of art and technology. Based on a book by physicist Richard Feynman.

Shot on breathtaking locations at the tea plantations in Darjeeling, this oneiric tale contemplates the amazingly uplifting experience of drinking tea.

A slowly evolving pixel painting by T. Marie based on the highlight of William Turner's Romantic art.

Sensitive, short fiction on the old body that no longer works, while young people take their mobility for granted.

Cityscape of the gigantic Indian metropolises Mumbai and Bengaluru explored during a night ride of a rickshaw driver who encounters many shady customers.

sun moon stars rain is an animated psychedelic elegy, lamenting the death of Mother Nature's children.

Meditative documentary about village life in China. The director calmly lives alongside the inhabitants, the seasons and the land.

Delicate Thai Super-8 film in which a spirit comes back to visit the family. Something accepted as normal in Thailand.

Docu-fictitious dog walks and past-present-future city reflections in a gently profound Rotterdam debut.

Charming tragicomedy about a young man and his grandfather, who he kidnaps in order to give him a surprise. Screened before Silent Sonata.

Enthrallingly edited and scored, monochromatic amplification of 1970s idealism, expressed in drawings, texts and photos by the ‘British Systems Group’.

The future is not what it used to be. A catalogue of botanical fantasies like a space-age herbarium.

What can we expect from our own demise? Experienced through the memories of a younger brother, a tragic event is explained but not to be fully comprehended.

A boy has to cope on his own when his mother is taken ill. And he is in love with Tanja. Very charming film of photo stills about growing up.

Reconstruction of what happened on a particular day, during a meeting which changed a country's future.

Fragments of the life and thinking of percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky are situated in the history of avant-garde music during and after the 1970s.

Colour separation and Ben Tawhiti's whistling, humming and pedal steel allow Nova Paul's marae to defy rules of time and space.

An emotional journey through the traumatic past of Spoon Jackson, an actor, poet and writer, sometime philosopher, imprisoned since 1977.

Pornsites are the most clicked websites. Is porn the answer to our need for physical contact or just one of its aspects? An exploration of porn and physical touch. Screened before Flowers of Evil.

Critical work reflecting on the secret history of the first unmanipulated iconic news photo of an American shantytown.

Documentary essay for the IFFR's fortieth anniversary. Portraits of a number of the festival’s characteristic directors. With Jim Jarmusch, Wim Wenders, Abbas Kiarostami, Abderrahmane Sissako, Michael Haneke and Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

This happy film is set in the near future and extols life's little joys, consumed alone or together.

Lyrical and musical in its style, Tiong Bahru (Civic Life series) delves into ideas of identity, community and heritage within the Singaporean civic sphere. Screened before Grande Hotel.

Double bill with Shibuya - Tokyo& uses an ingenious patchwork of thirty different shots to create a dynamic impression of the busiest metro line in Tokyo.

Typical Luc Moullet: dryly comedic narrative about our cold society, in which room for inter-human relations continually decreases. Screened before A Useful Life.

Filmmaker/artist Edward Luyken's yearly output has become a tradition at the IFFR and is a worthy part of the 40th anniversary edition.

Paracinema according to Bradley Eros that overlays The Transformers, the Futurist Manifesto and Einstürzende Neubauten to great effect.

Visually deconstructing the idea of a travelogue, this film is an ode to the city, as derived from a wide range of travel writings about London.

Well-acted, sober fiction about absent fathers. How do you behave towards your daughter when granted three hours of leave from prison? Screened before A Little Closer.

Opening with the promise that 'The following film contains stroboscopic/flashing imagery from the start!', Triband puts the flash into flash animation.

Triptych is a poetic, lyrical film that features a trio of locations as intriguing leads: how we live, work and relax in the Netherlands.

Trypps #7 charts a young woman's LSD trip in the Badlands National Park before descending into a psychedelic, formal abstraction of the expansive desert landscape.

Layered film combines rituals honouring the Hindu god Ganesha with very personal images and confessions.

A graphic experiment exploring the metamorphosis of shapes, perspectives and dimensions.

Cartoon bombs explode in an abstract animation. The images were selected for their contrast to the music. Witty visual art. Screened before Hot as Hell: the Deadbeat March.

Super-8 blow-ups by a dedicated filmmaker who manages to capture moments that otherwise too readily escape. A catalogue of apparent insignificance.

The point of view of a person falling from the top of a high-rise building. Shot on Super-8 and beautifully mastered with optical printing techniques.

A fantastical, melodramatic, stop-motion, long-exposure, driven docudrama, with the lead role shared by God and the city of Mumbai.

There's nothing more annoying than the sound of a lawn mower. It's worse than a thousand insects buzzing around you. In a village, everyone's mowing. Screened before Julien.

A fearful man meets a disquieted woman. Do you believe in magic?

Under the bridge: an endless play of light, pulsating, reversing and returning. A video like a palindrome.

A massive compilation of images and sounds sent into space, embodying the best of planet Earth. Also a love story concerning its composer, Carl Sagan.

Louis Henderson visits the artistic afterlife, travelling to the East End London of his great-uncle and photographer, Nigel Henderson (1917-1985).

What if the Jews were to return to Europe? A daring reversal which does not remain merely a concept in this film/performance.

Echoes of Monty Python resound in this animation on the food industry. Where does our food come from? We'd rather not know!

Bicycles and relationship problems in the living room. The view from the roof terrace is equally limited. An exceptional dance film in an ordinary environment.

A dog gets lost on the streets of Addis Ababa. The search is a joyous, beneficial and ultimately surprising undertaking.

Teenage girls hope to have important, enthralling lives. Whilst waiting for these to arrive, they dance and kiss each other, then spy on hunky builders.

A contemplative personal observation of Kolkata, where the filmmaker’s discovery of exciting streets, buildings and windows culminates in a poetic cinematic record.

Staging himself as various women of the world, Ane Lan questions images and ideas of gender, ethnicity and multiculturalism.

A director feels his death is imminent and takes a bear's advice. Unmistakeable, with filmmaker Betbeder's light, mystical touch.

A film made with American slickness and African realism about a hip hop artist from Zambia who wants to make it in New York. Yo!

A young chess player and a minute of Ravel. Moving trailer created for an Argentinean film festival. Screened before Hoy como ayer.